1) Donna Karan's annual designer garage sale in support of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund was co-hosted by InStyle and Kelly Ripa on Saturday. Betsey Johnson, Lydia Hearst, Euan Rellie, Lorraine Bracco, Jessica Stam, Katie Lee Joel, Debbie Matenopoulos, Hana Soukupova, Charlotte Ronson, and Nanette Lepore browsed stalls manned by the likes of Rachel Zoe and Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, raising $3.6 million. [FWD]
Jay-Z chatting on his phone while getting into a car outside his Tribeca building ... Ethan Hawke and Ryan Shawnhughes pushing their newborn, Clementine, through the Village ... Sheryl Crow playing with son Wyatt on a downtown sidewalk ... Mario Lopez hailing a cab in Chelsea ... Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky on the set of a Vogue photo shoot in the East Village ... Jessica Simpson shopping at Bergdorf Goodman ... Blake Lively and Leighton Meester shooting scenes for Gossip Girl in Brooklyn ... Keri Russell taking a stroll through SoHo ... Kirsten Dunst and Agyness Deyn at a concert at McCarren Park Pool ... Sam and Charlotte Ronson leaving the Bowery Hotel with Lindsay, Dina and Ali Lohan.
Ann Dexter-Jones eating with her daughters, Sam and Charlotte, at Bar Pitti ... Sam Ronson walking through the East Village just a few hours later ... Madonna sitting in the back seat of an SUV en route to a recording studio ... Lindsay Price showing up on the set of Lipstick Jungle ... Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour shopping in SoHo ... Mariah Carey wearing a midriff shirt and pastel mini-skirt outside MTV ... James Van Der Beek posing for photos backstage at Avenue Q ... Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly acting silly for the cameras while walking to the premiere of Step Brothers ... An attention-seeking Kourtney Kardashian flashing her underwear during a lunch at Bar Pitti with boyfriend Scott Disick and then, later, posing outside the Waverly Inn.
(1) Attendees at Sephora's party at the Angel Orensanz foundation last night included Lydia Hearst, Kelly Osbourne, Kat Von D, Nicky Hilton, Dani Stahl, Ali Wise, Jason Preston, Mike Satsky, Olivia Palermo, and Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss. The crowd, though, was more impressed by the presence of out-and-proud couple Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson (above, with half-sister Annabelle) than by performances by Ashanti and Natasha Bedingfield. [Elle/PMc]
1) After a Tuesday night Cinema Society screening of Transsiberian starring Kate Mara and Emily Mortimer at the Tribeca Grand, host Andrew Saffir, Ann Dexter-Jones, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Eleanor Ylvisaker, Russell Simmons, and Becca Cason Thrash (who was "exhausted" after "buying from four collections" at the couture shows) went to hotel's Yard to drink themed cocktails and pose for pics. [Park Avenue Peerage/FWD]
We don't know if you've heard of this new DJ/music producer, Mark Ronson: He's totally under the radar, and is very rarely photographed or gossiped about, let alone spotted schmoozing with different celebs each night of the week. There haven't been any newspaper or magazine profiles written about him (nor about his sisters, two reclusive and prim young ladies named Samantha and Charlotte) so thank goodness a UK Times journalist had his finger sufficiently on the pulse to suggest something radical to his editor: An interview with the attention-shy, self-effacing young man himself, so that the world can finally hear about him and his work.
Relentless social-climbing scenester Peter Davis with a woman? Unimaginable! Like an enthusiastic puppy, Davis has posted a list of the "red-hot socialites" who "make me want to say bi-bi to my homo ways." (In other words, here's a list of socials I'd like to kiss up to and a perfectly good excuse to do so.) Eleanor Ylvisaker is first on Davis's list. Charlotte Ronson comes in second. ("Then I could try and get with her brother Mark," Davis writes.) Fourth on the list? Tinsley Mortimer. "Sure, she's my sister-in-law, but we aren't blood relatives." Actually, she's your half-sister-in-law, missy. [Paper]
1) Rory and Elie Tahari hosted a bash at their beachfront house for God's Love We Deliver: 400 guests including Simon Doonan (above center) and Jonathan Adler, Martha Stewart, Arnold Scaasi, Kelly Klein, Debbie Bancroft, Richard Mishaan, Tory Burch, Kyle MacLachlan (above left) and Desiree Gruber (above right), Olivia Chantecaille, Dennis Basso, Melissa Berkelhammer, Gigi Mortimer, Karen Pearl, and Tiffany Dubin raised $1.3 million by bidding on auction prizes including lunch with Blaine Trump and Joan Rivers at Le Cirque. [Hamptons.com/Dan's Hamptons]
While her twin Samantha's busy with a full-time role as Lindsay Lohan's driver/purse carrier/lesbian life partner, brother Mark remains the most overpaid and overexposed DJ in history, and mom Ann relentlessly socializes and namedrops, fashion designer Charlotte Ronson—whose Urban Outfitters line, Play by C. Ronson, just hit stores—manages to be the the least insufferable member of her family (OK, so it's not difficult). [Nylon]
